Reporters aimed their camera lenses. Heads craned at his every move. Members of the media followed him wherever he went.
And three-month-old male seal pup Toby seemed completely oblivious to all the attention.
This morning, staff members at Long Beach’s Aquarium of the Pacific moved the young harbor seal into his new home. Members of the public can now see him swimming with his mom, Shelby, and his sister Bixby, who was born last year. Toby and Bixby are the first harbor seals born at the aquarium.
Aquarium Mammologist (animal trainer) Kristen Marshall, who was one of two staffers who brought Toby into his new home, talked about her charge.
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